Re: partition sda1 on usb pen not recognized

[bmarcum@iglou.com (Bill Marcum)]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 01:11:53AM -0800, scanda wrote:
> ==> update
> 
>  i've another laptop ( an old texas instrument ) with debian sarge,
> kernel 2.4
> 
>  if i plug the usb pen ( iomega mini 128 ) i've the same problem!!!!
> 
>  afther the command "fdisk -l /dev/sda" udev find the sda1 partition
> and
>  everything went ok
> 
>  any idea ????
> 
> 
Some usb devices are formatted like big floppy disks, i.e. you mount 
them as /dev/sda instead of /dev/sda1.  Nowadays it usually doesn't make 
sense to split a 128 or 256 meg drive into smaller partitions, so a 
partition table isn't always necessary.


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